‘several attempts at braiding my way home’ After talk with Adam and Amina Seid Tahir and Mmabatho Thobejane

After the show ‘several attempts at braiding my way home’ on Friday the 3rd of November the artists Adam och Amina Seid Tahir are conversing with Mmabatho Thobejane, producer at MDT and freelance curator.

Adam Seid Tahir (they/them) is a choreographer and creative technologist. Their two roles involve crafting performative work and designing/developing websites. These practices also merge and expand into writing texts, making video installations, 3D animation, crafting sensor-based instruments and building the new MDT website which launched in 2023. Seid Tahir uses speculative imagination as a tool of resistance and centres their work around creating loud and immersive black queer fiction. They are interested in mythological figures, daydreaming and crafting affective machines.

Amina Seid Tahir (she/her) is a Swedish-Eritrean artist and choreographer based in Stockholm/London. Her work is rooted in themes around resting and dreaming within the global majority community and grows through mediums such as sound, braiding, vibration, installation and performance. Braiding together her interests in ancestral knowledge with oral traditions and myths, she creates a universe between reality and fiction. Manifesting spaces where dreams can work like seeds to grow Futures.

Mmabatho Thobejane is a South African cultural worker and ngaka ya setso (traditional healer) based in Stockholm, Sweden. She is a producer at MDT Moderna Dansteatern and also works as a freelance curator, researcher and writer.